Lied can Fly

It remains a mystery how music appears and comes alive. In his song cycle "Blessed be", Michael Finnissy explores sensitively twisting and turning lines, shifting between Music's ancient roots and the 'moment of Now'. Magic seems to arise everywhere, if we open up our senses. The performers in ‘Blessed be 1’ are Lotte Betts-Dean, Valerie Wellbanks ('cello) and Olga Stezhko (piano).

We celebrate the 2nd Birthday of "Lied can Fly" / "Lieder können fliegen"! More than 50 episodes were produced and we totally reached more than 44.000 downloads and streams. To support the podcast, you can become a premium member at the steady community: https://steadyhq.com/de/lieder-konnen-fliegen/about [https://steadyhq.com/de/lieder-konnen-fliegen/about] The Birthday Premium Edition with selected songs of two years of "Lied can Fly" / "Lieder können fliegen" will be available exclusively for premium members. Join this special community and become a member now.

Music can be part of the most challenging moments in our lives. Light and darkness, birth and death - with her CD "Enigma", Sarah Aristidou created a panorama of sounds and musical landscapes of our soul. Sabine Bergk talks with Sarah Aristidou about the "Lamento Turco" by Andreas Tsiartas.

Complexity culminates into tragedy in Dostoevsky's masterpiece "The Idiot" - and it might be nearly impossible to set it into music. With the "The letters of Nastasya Filippovna", Sidney Corbett reduced the drama to a maximum of intensity and obsession. If love might never be possible - beauty always is.

Romantic poetry has been attracting many composers with its musical colours. In his "Wiegenlied", Moritz Eggert picked a poem by Clemens Brentano to dive deeply into the dark moments of romanticism. Sabine Bergk talks with Moritz about lullabies in turbulent times. We wish you a wonderful Christmas!